Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Critique: Meredith prototypes

I'm ok with my Meredith covers but I think the insides are kind of crappy. Maybe that's because I didn't give much thought about them working together as a package. Kristin K. made a good point about the "toc", I think the reason I put it there is because I liked how it looked without giving much thought to what it would mean to people who don't do magazine publishing/production and that it doesn't work with the covers at all! I love my little "smell the roses" page but I think it needs to be further developed into a feature spread so that it will be consistent with the whole boomer feel. Kate L. also made a good point that the pages needing a style that will reflect a package and the covers. Elisa also made a good remark about how the covers are quite different from the insides. I think I really need to think of the magazine as a package when I design and its really helpful to hear all these comments!

I will continue to work on it!

1 comment:

Kristin said...

I really liked your "Smell the roses" page and the summertime food feature. Everything in the issue was very crisp.